World News from the BBC
An American observer group, the Carter Center says the will of the Kenyan people was respected in last month's presidential elections despite some problems relating to technology and transparency. Kenyan's election commission declared Uhuru Kenyatta the winner with 50.7% of the vote, the result was challenged by his main
opponent
Raila Odinga, but upheld by the Supreme Court.
Facebook has released a new piece of
software">software
that it hopes will put the social
network
the center of Smartphones that run Google's Android operating system. It's designed to make Facebook the home screen of mobile phone rather than one of many apps you have to click on. Mark Gregory reports.
Facebook has unveiled what is essentially and easily downloaded
software">software
upgrade called home designed to make its services more
prominent
on any phone and later tablet that runs on Google's Android operating system. Facebook updates in messages will appear on the home screen immediately the phone is turned on with that they need to open the separate app. It's seen as a key plan could keep the social networking service's efforts to grab users' attention in an air while people increasingly do their computing on mobile devices not
personal
computers.
Chinese tourists have overtaken Germans and Americans as the world's biggest spending travelers. New figures from the World Tourism Organization showed that the Chinese spent more than $100bn on foreign trips last year, a 41% rise on the year before. Russian tourism is also growing fast, Russians are another fifth highest spending tourists.